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The new measures : a theological history of democratic practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Ted A., 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
United States > Church history.
United States > Politics and government > Philosophy.
Democracy > Religious aspects > Christianity > United States.
Christianity and politics > United States.
Christianity and culture > United States.
Finney, Charles Grandison, > 1792-1895.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • The flyer : a preface for theologions, ethicists, historians, and homileticians
  • The new measures and democracy
  • Theological history as eschatological memory
  • Now is the time
  • The fugleman : a brief drill in methodology
  • The cultural turn
  • Turns to invisible church cultures
  • Critical resignations
  • A resignation to reflexivity : criticism as self-criticism
  • A resignation to hodgepodge : practice makes public
  • A resignation to redemption : Rettendekritik
  • The form of a fugleman's faith
  • Some measures are plainly necessary
  • The house commission on measures
  • From ornament to means to measure
  • Religion is the work of man
  • Necessary measures
  • A minority report
  • Purposeful purposelessness
  • Measures for measures
  • Agonizing prayer
  • You must have something new
  • A sailor who lived to tell the tale
  • An economy of attention
  • The science of sensation
  • Caught up in the storm
  • The more opposition the better
  • It is in vain to drop the subject
  • Nothing's shocking
  • The witness of fashion, the prayer of the storm
  • Sinners bound to change their own hearts
  • Reuben Heacock
  • Choices waiting for choosers
  • The election of God
  • Free conversations
  • An opponent in theory
  • A friend to close for comfort
  • The freedom of anxious spectators
  • Ideological freedom
  • Whosoever will
  • Boston and Manlius
  • Formal equality and middle-class respectability
  • Respectable equality
  • General atonement
  • Personal preaching
  • Free churches
  • Coeducation
  • The price of resistance
  • Riots against respectable equality
  • The lynching at Oberlin
  • Memories from Manlius
  • The first of August
  • The measure of the self
  • Sir Charles Grandison
  • A country in masquerade
  • Measures of sincerity
  • Practicing what you preach
  • The authority of a star
  • Opponents in starring roles
  • After charisma : mandatory publicity
  • After tradition : mandatory personality
  • The price of fame
  • The subject of redemption
  • Gospel stories
  • Henry and the pirate
  • The time of the type
  • The time of the illustration
  • Illustrative opponents
  • Christian nurture now
  • The convert
  • The Word made case
  • Eschatological memories
  • Remarks, or the politics of eschatological memory.